Mud-guard for cycles.



N0. 635,6!4. Patented Oct. 24, I899..

I A. THYM.

MUD GUARD FOB CYCLES.

(Application filed June 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

STATES ATENT Fries.

MUD-GUARD FOR CYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,614, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed June 19, 1899. Serial No. 721,108 (No model.)

To all whom it Wtay concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLF THi' M, innkeeper, a subject of the Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, residing at Katzhiitte, in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mud-Guards for Cycles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in mud-guards for cycles; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts of a flexible mud-guard capable of being detachably secured to the cycle-frame and adapted to be rolled into a small compass when removed from the cycle, so as to be conveniently carried in a pocket or pouch.

The invention consists in features of construction and novel combinations of parts in a flexible and detachable mud-guard, as hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is an eleva tion of a cycle with my improved mud-guard attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a broken plan view of the mud-guard detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the mud-guard in a rolled condition, so that it can be conveniently carried in the pouch.

My improved mud-guard comprises a flexible band-like strip (1,, provided at suitable points with detachable clasps or fastening devices d and f, provided, respectively, with hooks b and eyes a, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The forward end portion 7' is adj ustably engagedwith the clasp part f and is provided with any suitable clip-buckle S, so arranged that the flexible band or strip a may be easily lengthened or shortened and adjusted to any required length. In the rear portion of the flexible band a there is arranged an inflatable tube 71, having an inflating-valve 'L at one end. By means of any suitable air-pump attached to the valve 2' the tube h can be inflated, so as to impart a requisite degree of rigidity to the rear part of the flexible band a, whereby the rear portion of the mud-guard will be capable of sustainingitself above the rear cycle-Wheel when said rear portion of the mud-guard is attached to the rear portion of the cycle-frame.

On the rear portion of the mud-guard there is a hook g to engage a brace on the rear fork Z of the cycle-frame, as shown in Fig. 1, with the inflated and stiffened portion of the mud-guard projecting above the rear wheel. In attaching this mud-guard to a cycle-frame the hooks b and eyes 0 at the forward end of the strip a are first disconnected from each other. The clasp d is then passed around the front fork p, and the hooks b and eyes 0 are then again brought into engagement, thereby supporting the forward end of the mud-guard, as shown in Fig. 1. The flexible band or strip a, constituting the main portion of the mudguard, is passed rearwardly beneath the frame of the cycle and upward immediately in rear of a brace m on the lower branch n of the rear fork. From this point the mud-guard is extended upward and its hook g is engaged with the cross-brace 7c of the rear fork t, as before mentioned. On the band at, intermediate the cross-braces m and 14:, there is attached a clasp f forengagem cut with a clasp d,passed around the saddle -pillar t, as shown in Fig. 1. It will be observed that the clasps d f for attaching the band a to the saddle-pillar t have the same construction as the clasps d and f for attaching the forward end of the mud guard to the front fork p of the cycle-frame. The mud-guard is easily detached from the cycle -frame by simply disconnecting the clasps cl and f and disengaging the hook g' from the rear part of the frame. The valved can be opened to deflate the tube h, and then the flexible mud-guard can be easily rolled into a compact form, as shown in Fig. 3, the clasps d and f being first again engaged with each other, as shown. The mud-guard can be very quickly attached to or detached from the cycle-frame, and being composed of any suitable flexible material of sufficient strength it can be easily rolled into small compass after the tube It has been deflated.

What I claim as my invention is' The herein described detachable mudguard, consisting of a flexible band or strip a provided with fastenings to detachably engage the front and rear portions of the cycleframe, a buckle for adjusting the length of said band, and an inflatable tube h inserted in the rear portion of said flexible band and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set provided at one end with an air-valve t, where my hand in presence of two subscribing witby the said mud-guard can be inflated to imnesses.

part the requisite stiffness thereto, the said ADOLF THYM. 5 guard being adapted to be rolled into a small Witnesses:

compass when deflated, substantially as de- ALVIN FLORACI-IUTZ,

scribed. FREIDRICH HAAS. 

